hubertlepicki
Coming from Rails, we used to have the feature where we could specify date / time / timestamp formats in our translation files, and then use simple helper function to convert date/time/timestamp to current user’s locales using that template. We were also able to specify variants, say :short date format etc. The procedure is described here: Rails Internationalization (I18n) API — Ruby on Rails Guides
Is there something in Elixir ecosystem, that I am not aware of, that allows us to have similar effect?
I think I could hack something like that myself, using gettext to store format strings, then a custom helper to fetch this string from gettext and format timestamps accordingly, but I was wondering if I missed something that’s doing it (possibly better) already in the ecosystem of libraries?
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wojtekmach
Check out: GitHub - elixir-cldr/cldr_dates_times: Date & times formatting functions for the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) package https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr · GitHub
I haven’t used it yet but this looks really comprehensive.
LostKobrakai
I’m using it and it’s really great. With ex_cldr and the cldr database backing it the level of availability and maintenance of formats is just unbeatable compared to any per project database.
kip
Here are the links to the packages in the
ex_cldrfamily latest release. I can see the benefit to a tighter integration betweenGettextandex_cldrand would welcome any thoughts along those lines.hubertlepicki
the whole bunch of libraries look like something I can definitely use. I will give it a try, thank you so much for doing it